As I've noted on the website, this appears to be a Vista bug as the Microsoft example code also fails. Note: choose.dir() works in Rterm but not in Rgui.
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, roberto.passera at tin.it wrote:
Full_Name: Roberto Passera Version: 2.6.0 and 2.6.0 patched OS: Windows Vista Premium Submission from: (NULL) (151.48.70.219) Using R 2.6.0 and 2.6.0 patched Italian version on Windows Vista systems, when selecting File-Choose directory, the sub-command Choose a folder doesn't go, being stopped to Desktop option.
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